A report by the State Bank of India (SBI) has revealed progress in reducing poverty levels in India.These figures mark a decline from FY23 estimates, which placed rural poverty at 7.2 per cent and ...

India is in a period of unprecedented opportunity, challenge and ambition in its development. The country’s extreme poverty rate has fallen from 46 percent to 21 percent in the two decades up to 2011, ...

A research study by State Bank of India (SBI) highlighted that the extreme poverty in the country has reduced to minimal with poverty rates in the country falling below 5 percent in 2024.

But it is tackling major social, economic and environmental issues, including a huge gap between the wealthy and those living in poverty. Save the Children has worked in India since the 1940s, setting ...

The paper highlights issues with the methodology adopted by the GoI, which estimates poverty at just 5% based on "positive ...

“Thanks to your policies, India was able to lift 27 crore people, the highest number of poor people, out of poverty,” Kharge wrote in a letter to Singh. The numbers laid out by Kharge and Modi ...

New Delhi, Along with the sharp decline in poverty in India, there has also been a marked reduction in the rural-urban income divide in the country, according to an SBI Research analysis of a ...

Employed poverty has always existed in agriculture.” At a very broad level, the two shock absorbers of India’s labour market have been agriculture and self-employment, with elements of self ...

Real progress has been made in reducing poverty in recent years, particularly in India and China. However, there is still much uncertainty about the numbers. Using the same data, two reports released ...